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Follow-on research funds of up to $3,000 are available to undergraduate and graduate students who have completed (or are completing) a Bass Connections project team and propose to continue some aspect of the team’s work through a faculty-mentored research experience.

ABC Thrive announces its inaugural request for seed grant proposals to support the early work of interdisciplinary teams exploring innovations in positive early childhood development, prenatal to age five.

When Sam Sadler unexpectedly fell ill while conducting research with her Bass Connections team in Uganda last summer, she found herself face to face with grave ethical dilemmas that plague the field of global health. Sadler reflects on her experience as a student, researcher and patient, dedicated to finding sustainable solutions to global health disparities while also experiencing some of those disparities firsthand.

Adriana Lapuerta reflects on her research tracking early 20th-century folk music through the North Carolina mountains and across the Atlantic to the UK. “My follow-on research made me realize how much I love exploring different cultures, especially through music.”

A deep-sea oil well has a blowout. A tsunami leads to meltdowns at a nuclear power plant. A bubble in the subprime mortgage market triggers a global financial crisis. What happens next? A new book examines how such crisis events reshape law and regulation, and how governments can learn from disaster.

“Few resources are dedicated to understanding refugee experiences upon successfully seeking asylum,” says Anuhita Basavaraju. “In Copenhagen, I was struck by the race relations between the brown (majority Muslim) and white Danes. I hypothesized that a big part of the divide between the two groups comes from a lack of empathy as a result of being separated from each other and a lack of direct communication.”